Climate change has helped humans

This picture made available by NASA shows an area of the Arctic sea ice pack roughly northeast of the New Siberian Islands, captured by multiple orbits of the MODIS instrument on NASA's Terra satellite on Sept. 13, 2013. Sea ice dominates the lower left half of the image; open ocean and cloud formations can be seen in the upper right. After an unusually cold summer in the northernmost latitudes, Arctic sea ice appears to have reached its annual minimum summer extent for 2013 on September 13, the NASA-supported National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) at the University of Colorado in Boulder has reported.

Michael Wolley in his Sept. 19 letter said our leaders are taking note of the overwhelming scientific evidence that climate change is one of the greatest threats of our time. Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential campaign said, "Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket." Environmental Protection Agency fines on power plants for carbon pollution and the cost of attempted carbon capture will be passed on to customers. Much higher electricity rates will hurt the poor too.

Mankind has benefited greatly from the warming of the climate in the past 11,000 years. Northern Indiana isn't covered by a glacier anymore. Climate change has become political only in the past 20 years. It's not as warm now as in the past three interglacial warm periods.

Gary Pitman

Pendleton

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Climate change has helped humans

Michael Wolley in his Sept. 19 letter said our leaders are taking note of the overwhelming scientific evidence that climate change is one of the greatest threats of our time. Barack Obama in the 2008